Enver Mehmeti, replaced his wife, Yasmeya Mehmeti-Weeks, as the head of the crew after the police in Barnegat Township, N.J., had her arrested in

Enver Mehmeti, replaced his wife, Yasmeya Mehmeti-Weeks, as the head of the crew after the police in Barnegat Township, N.J., had her arrested in March 2007, according to a complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn. That takedown "severely disrupted the illegal activities of the organization," federal prosecutors wrote.
So Mehmeti, who had just been released after serving time in federal prison, and his cohorts shifted their operation to Staten Island, working out of a house at 27 Purdue St. and making door-to-door deliveries to buyers, prosecutors allege. Federal documents don't detail exactly how much they sold on Staten Island, but the indictment accuses them of conspiring to possess at least 50 grams of cocaine base at one point. Each of the suspects face a maximum of 10 years to life behind bars if convicted at trial, said Robert Nardoza, a spokesman for Benton J. Campbell, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York. The federal Drug Enforcement Administration was wise to their operation since April of last year, though, setting up wiretaps and, in one case, intercepting a cocaine package that was dropped off on someone's doorstep, court papers allege. And as the noose tightened, the members of the group got nervous, fretting in phone conversations about surveillance around the stash house, court papers allege. In one episode caught on the wiretap last month, suspect Leonel (Pudgie) Arellano was on his way to Purdue Street when he spotted a surveillance car and called Tyrone (Greedy) Garcia, who was waiting inside.

"Yo, they sitting right, it was them," Arellano said.
"Huh?" Garcia replied.
"Sitting right, right, right next to the house... in a car," Arellano continued.
"The same cops?"
"The 'D's,' n----!"
The 'D's,' court papers explain, was a reference to plain-clothes detectives.

Garcia then asked Arellano, "Yo, let me know if I should flush this sh--."

They discussed how Arellano should enter the house, since they didn't want the detectives to use his entrance as a reason to follow them in and find the drugs inside, the feds allege. In all, federal authorities arrested Mehmeti, 29, of the 100 block of Catherine Street in Port Richmond; Arellano, 19, of Roxbury Street in Mariners Harbor; Garcia, 20, of the 100 block of Continental Place in Mariners Harbor; Fabian (Fabe) Nash, 20, of the 100 block of Harbor Road in Mariners Harbor; Edward (Eddie) Gotay, 18, of the 100 block of Lockman Avenue in Mariners Harbor; and Ramone (Ramone Williams) Vaughn, 20, of the 200 block of Lockwood Avenue.